Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

• Soulg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m really being sincere, but why would men magically not need a job fair? They can also be unemployed and struggle to get a job. That’s not a 2x specific issue.

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  • CaptFeather@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because men dominate the tech industry. It just doesn’t make sense to hold one for men.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eh… I think it does, but for different reasons. The tech industry has a relatively high rate of unemployment. Job fairs would be good for everyone.

      I agree that women have unique issues in tech and a women-only job fair would be a good thing. I just think General-admission job fairs are useful now too.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eh… I think it does, but for different reasons. The tech industry has a relatively high rate of unemployment. Job fairs would be good for everyone.

      I agree that women have unique issues in tech and a women-only job fair would be a good thing. I just think General-admission job fairs are useful now too.

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  • PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess I’ll just copy and paste from my previous comment:

    NEARLY ALL of the other tech job fairs are dominated by men.

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• cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If woman want a job fair they should create one that actually only allows women, but given no one seems to have a definition for women, it might be hard to do.

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  • ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Way to be exactly the type of person they are referring to.

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    • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      what type of person who referred to?

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bigoted loser.

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  • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Federal anti-discrimination laws disallow this. It has nothing to do with the “definition of women”.

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    • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      which law prevents a private female only conference from happening? As far as I know, there are no such laws.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Read The Fucking Article, that’s the exact reason they allowed men at the conference in question: federal nondiscrimination laws

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• Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why can’t women have a job fair?

  Laws.

  I agree with you, it’s just not the way the laws were written.

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  • rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah but been could be mature enough to stay away from it. Instead they act like they’re being oppressed. All the other job fairs are already dominated by men.

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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s worse is when you see workplaces that want more women for only the idea it will ‘bring up the standard’ like….I think there’s something telling about the culture alone if they need a specific gender to help understand better standards of working. I would hope they are hiring inclusively for more reasons than just ‘our standards are low cuz men are poo and we won’t confront them on it. We will leave it to women to mommy manage it for us. Know any women looking for a job?’

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